New Age

So all that remains for this, the eighth installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing New Age spirituality and Christianity, is to offer you the conclusion.

The word limit for the essay was 3000 words ± 10%, and so, as with almost all my essays, I went flying past the 3000 words and had to try really hard to end up with the final work count of 3,299 words!

The result is that my conclusion is more functional than I would have liked - nothing more than a summary of the argument. I would liked to have given some conluding thoughts more than just summarise the essays, but that's the limits of word counts! Maybe I'll offer some concluding thoughts here on the site somewhere in my next few posts. Maybe you have some concluding thoughts yourself - if so, leave a comment.

If you're just entering at this point, you may like to read for your yourself the previous posts of the essay, which you can do by selecting the links on the right of this page.

So, without further ado, here's the conclusion.

Today is the seventh installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing New Age spirituality and Christianity.

In the previous installment I began looking at the Aquarian understanding of the nature of reality, looking in particular at Aquarian notions of God and the self. Today's episode takes this on further to understanding the role of a faith community and to questions of ethics.

If you're just entering at this point, you may like to read for your yourself the previous posts of the essay, which you can do by selecting the links on the right of this page.

Please do leave your comments or reflections!

Today is the sixth installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing New Age spirituality and Christianity.

Today I start looking at the specific understanding of the nature of reality within the Aquarian vision, using critque it from Christian understanding of the Kingdom of God. Today's post specifically examines the nature of God and the self within the Aquarian approach.

I you're just entering at this point, you may like to read for your yourself the previous posts of the essay, which you can do by selecting the links on the right of this page.

Please leave your comments or reflections - it's nice for me to know there's someone out there!

Ok, so here's the fifth installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing New Age spirituality and Christianity.

Today's post carries on from examining why we're talking about an 'aquarian age' by asking about Aquarian eschatology - if the Kingdom of God is understood as 'now' but 'not yet', what are Aquarian notions of the ultimate destiny of humanity?

I you're just entering at this point, you may like to read for your yourself the title and some of the background thoughts to this essay, or catch up by reading the introduction, about why it's a 'new age' and why that new age might be considered and aquarian age. Please leave your comments or reflections if you would like to.

Today is the fourth installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing New Age spirituality and Christianity. We've so far had the introduction and begun to look at the what is meant by a New Age.

Today's post asks why it should be an 'aquarian age' and seeks to assess the notion of an age of aquarius in the light of Christian understanding of the Kingdom of God.

I you're just entering at this point, you may like to read for your yourself the title and some of the background thoughts to this essay. Please leave your comments or reflections if you would like to.

Today is the third installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing New Age spirituality and Christianity. On Saturday I posted the introduction to the essay, which set the scene for the subject and laid out the structure of the essay.

Today's post asks the question, what is meant by a 'new age' and what are the questions being asked to which a new age is a necessary answer?

I you're just entering at this point, you may like to read for your yourself the title and introduction to this essay. Please leave your comments or reflections if you would like to.

Today is the first installment of my Advanced Workshop essay comparing and contrasting Christianity and New Age spirituality. As with previous essays (Joshua, Conquest and Jesus; The Ecological Bankruptcy of Christianity?), I'm publishing this essay in bitesize chunks over the next few days. For an overview of the essay structure, see yesterday's post.

Today's post is the introduction to the essay, setting out the structure of the essay, the subjects addressed within the 3,000 word limit of the essay, and rationale for the particular approach taken. So, today's installment should give you an idea of what to expect over the next few days.

As always, I'm eager to hear your comments and reflections, so please feel free to drop something in.

'This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius...'

Well, it's been a while since I've put anything weighty on the site, so I thought now would be a good time. I've just had the final result from the undergraduate theology course I've been studying, Advanced Workshop, together with the marks for the last two essays. So, for the next few days I'm going to publish one of those last two essays. Here's the title …

CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE NEW AGE CONCEPT OF THE ‘AGE OF AQUARIUS’ IN THE LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDING OF ‘THE KINGDOM OF GOD’